A countless number of inspiring women have said (and done) a countless number of inspiring things. To celebrate Women’s History Month, I’m highlighting only some of the infinite brilliance of women.

1. If women could go into your Congress, I think justice would soon be done to the Indians.
Sara Winnemucca, Piute tribe activist, 1883
2. I am prepared to sacrifice every so-called privilege I possess in order to have a few rights.
Inez Milholland, Suffragist 1909
3. Women more than men can strip war of its glamour and its out-of-date heroisms and patriotisms, and see it as a demon of destruction and hideous wrong.
Lillian Wald, nurse, public health advocate, social worker.
4. I was just born to swing, that’s all.
Lil Hardin Armstrong, bandleader, 1930’s
5. There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.
Mae West, actress
6. People often say with pride, “I’m not interested in politics.” They might as well say, “I’m not interested in my standard of living, my health, my job, my rights, my freedoms, my future, or any future.”
Martha Gelhorn, Novelist, essayist, and war correspondent
7. Don’t compromise yourself. You’re all you’ve got.
Janice Joplin, singer
8. We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
Bella Abzug, lawyer
9. As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.”
Virginia Woolf, author

10. In my heart, I think a woman has two choices: either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
Gloria Steinem, feminist

Inspired? and check out the The National Women’s History Project (NWHP)

And readers: which of these women do you want to know more about? Let me know, and I’ll blog about them this month!